These are exciting times for NOIR! With the generous support of @regstud, the Network has been renewed until 2027, so look out for upcoming opportunities to engage with the world of infrastructural regionalism!.

If you're working on urban and regional infrastructure and are planning on heading to Detroit for the #AAG2025, please consider submitting an abstract to our @NOIR_RSA session on Infrastructuring Regions: Border, Corridors, Networks

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The chapter concludes by outlining the parameters for a research agenda on infrastructure time that includes accounting for infrastructure futures, examining urban infrastructure at night, & engaging with non-western temporal ontologies #InfrastructuralTimes.

And finally. #InfrastructuralTimes Ch.13 Michael Glass @jen_nelles @JP_Addie offer a synthetic assessment of the volume, arguing for the potential of infrastructure time to inform comparative urban research while reflecting on the political and scalar challenges it raises

DiCarlo argues that as waiting & uncertainty are coupled with hope, Lao residents affected by the railroad encounter a 'cruel optimism' as they anticipate benefits from the object responsible for their dispossession & wait on a promised future from which they are likely excluded.

#InfrastructuralTimes Ch.10 @jessicamdicarlo unpacks the experiences of people living in the shadow of the Laos-China Railway, identifying variations of waiting, suspension & stasis as modalities of infrastructure time that disrupt the linearity of project time & ‘China speed’

Check out the full @NOIR_RSA special issue on Water, Governance, and the Dynamics of Infrastructural Regionalism in @RSRS_OA volume 12 issue 6!.

Using ‘blackness’ as an analytical tool, Simone proposes that alternative infrastructural extensions may reposition Jayapura within an archipelago of cosmopolitan urbanism, one that refuses capture by the colonial state and the temporal logics of modernity #InfrastructuralTimes.

#InfrastructuralTimes Ch.5 @XazaarAdjame develops an account of ‘Papuan time’ that exposes tensions between contracting and protracting temporalities - of subjugation, of freedom, & of an 'interminable present' - as they unfold across Jayapura's urban infrastructural extensions

RT @JP_Addie: The @NOIR_RSA SI on Water Infrastructure and Regional Governance now has a home in @RSRS_OA. Free eprints of our editorial he….

Under "infrastructure fundamentalism", misalignment b/w long project cycles & shorter-term demands of capital ushers in pernicious violence and disconcerting ramifications through the ‘slow operations’ launched to extend commodity frontiers and integrate markets.

The #InfrastructuralTimes of ILD inhibit international financial institutions efforts to foster blended finance as long-term planning is inherently risky. IFIs thus seek to standardize distribution of economic, political, & environmental risk in an attempt to future-proof profits.

#InfrastructuralTimes Ch.7: @seth_schindler & @miguel_kanai dissect how infrastructure is imagined, financed, and produced in an era of infrastructure-led development, where actors must negotiate extended temporal horizons, timeframes of financial capital & the management of risk

Their comparative analysis demonstrates the incompatibility of existing urban infrastructures with the needs of people who have fallen out of ‘normal’ timeframes but also illustrates how quotidian agency can enable alternative temporalities and infrastructure futures to manifest.

Biglieri & Keil engage time as an infrastructure ‘in itself’ (that enables certain ways of life and is available to some but not others) and as an analytic that helps us understand how infrastructures materialize structural forms of inequity.

It's Monday #InfrastructuralTimes! In Ch.11 @s_biglieri & @rkeil examine two cases that expose the inequities of infrastructure time in Toronto’s seemingly unchanging suburbia: public health responses during COVID-19 and the timescapes of people living with dementia

Ekman focuses on a high-speed road, the Avenida Guayana, as a piece of region-making infrastructure and an experiment in choreographing the visual sequence of urban automobility that continues to codify planning as an essentially future-making proposition #InfrastructuralTimes.

#InfrastructuralTimes Ch.6 Peter Ekman examines the temporalities of modernist urban planning & global circulation of socio-technical knowledge that underpinned the intersecting development of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela & the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies in the 1960s

Understanding the imprints of time and technology on the built environment necessitates a reflexive approach to historicizing socio-technical systems. Here, Moss offers vital tools for those looking to rethink the present & critically formulate progressive infrastructural futures.

Drawing on Berlin's rich history, Moss suggests dominant infrastructural pasts might lock-in development trajectories and socio-technical imaginaries, but usable pasts can also be found in alternative systems that co-exist with but escape capture by hegemonic ideas & technologies.